Gastric Problems / Gas Trouble

Sometimes we feel a very heavy stomach. Sometimes we feel a bloated stomach. The release of gas from stomach in the form of fart or burp or belch would make us feel better. How to solve the gas problem? There are quite a lot of grandmas home remedies for gas troubles.

Grandmas home remedies Butter milk & asafoetida

1.       Grandmas home remedy for gastric problems is a glass of butter milk with a pinch of salt     and asafoetida (hing in the Indian language of Hindi) mixed. Asafoetida is available in all Indian supermarkets.  Drink this and you will feel the relief for yourself. This is absolutely harmless and can be taken even regularly to prevent gas problems.

2.      Garlic is an excellent medicine for gas trouble. 2-3 cloves of garlic can be eaten raw. For those who detest its raw pungent taste, the south Indian dish of Garlic Rasam can be made and eaten with ghee and rice. This works very well in children too. Not only does it release gas, but also cleanses the stomach of the little ones.

How to make garlic rasam?

A simple grandmas home recipe is given below. For more varieties of making the same, users of this blog are requested to browse the internet keeping in the mind the purpose of usage of garlic.

Ingredients:

4-5 cloves of garlic

½ lemon size tamarind soaked in 2 cups of water and extract kept ready.

1 medium size tomato

3 tablespoons of toor dhal or pigeon pea (Binomial – Cajanus Cajan)-soaked and pressure cooked

1 table spoon rasam premix readily available in all Indian super markets.

1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper and cumin

¼ teaspoon mustard, ¼ cumin seeds,1 tsp cooking oil and curry leaves (optional) for the seasoning.

Method :

Boil tamarind extract, tomato and the rasam premix in a container until the raw odour goes and the tomatoes get cooked. Then add the cooked pigeon pea to this and boil again for 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic at this stage and then allow to boil for another 2 minutes.  Add 1 teaspoon of oil in a frying pan, add the mustard and cumin seeds, allow it to crackle and add this seasoning to rasam.